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A large dust storm, or haboob, sweeps across downtown Phoenix Saturday afternoon, July 21, 2012. Dust storms are common across Arizona during the summer, and walls of dust more than a mile high ...
January 8: Shooting of U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords and eighteen others in Casas Adobes, Tucson. July 5: Major sandstorm (haboob) hits Phoenix. [256] University of Arizona's Center for Social Cohesion active. [257] East Valley Institute of Technology East campus opened, adjacent to ASU Polytechnic. Chandler Museum opens in the McCullough ...
A haboob [1] (Arabic: هَبوب, romanized: habūb, lit. 'blasting/drifting') is a type of intense dust storm carried by the wind of a weather front . Haboobs occur regularly in dry land area regions throughout the world.
Khamsin (khamaseen in Egypt) and similar winds named Haboob in the Sudan, Aajej in southern Morocco, Ghibli in Libya and Tunisia, Harmattan in the western Maghreb, Sirocco, a south wind from the Sahara and Simoom in the Arabian Peninsula. Tsiokantimo (strong south wind blowing southwest Madagascar)
A combination of weather conditions had parts of the Evergreen State looking more like the Sahara on Tuesday. This massive dust storm -- also known as a haboob, as many outlets eagerly pointed out ...
The term "Dust Bowl" initially described a series of dust storms that hit the prairies of Canada and the United States during the 1930s. [4] It now describes the area in the United States most affected by the storms, including western Kansas, eastern Colorado, northeastern New Mexico, and the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. [5]
The haboob (həbūb) is a sandstorm prevalent in the region of Sudan around Khartoum, with occurrences being most common in the summer. The Sahara desert is a key source of dust storms, particularly the Bodélé Depression [7] and an area covering the confluence of Mauritania, Mali, and Algeria. [8]
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